From: "Chong Yidong" <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: buffer-substring-filter
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:49:24 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1411.220.255.169.59.1111013364.squirrel@220.255.169.59> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DBbHx-000498-T5@fencepost.gnu.org>
> In that case, could you make those two little changes, and then
> would someone please install it?
Here is the revised patch.
*** emacs/lisp/simple.el~ Thu Mar 17 06:46:12 2005
--- emacs/lisp/simple.el Thu Mar 17 06:52:25 2005
***************
*** 2215,2220 ****
--- 2215,2256 ----
(reset-this-command-lengths)
(restore-overriding-map))
\f
+ (defvar buffer-substring-filters nil
+ "List of filter functions for `filter-buffer-substring'.
+ Each function must accept a single argument, a string, and return
+ a string. The buffer substring is passed to the first function
+ in the list, and the return value of each function is passed to
+ the next. The return value of the last function is used as the
+ return value of `filter-buffer-substring'.
+
+ If this variable is nil, no filtering is performed.")
+
+ (defun filter-buffer-substring (beg end &optional delete)
+ "Return the buffer substring between BEG and END, after filtering.
+ The buffer substring is passed through each of the filter
+ functions in `buffer-substring-filters', and the value from the
+ last filter function is returned. If `buffer-substring-filters'
+ is nil, the buffer substring is returned unaltered.
+
+ If DELETE is non-nil, the text between BEG and END is deleted
+ from the buffer.
+
+ Point is temporarily set to BEG before caling
+ `buffer-substring-filters', in case the functions need to know
+ where the text came from.
+
+ This function should be used instead of `buffer-substring' or
+ `delete-and-extract-region' when you want to allow filtering to
+ take place. For example, major or minor modes can use
+ `buffer-substring-filters' to extract characters that are special
+ to a buffer, and should not be copied into other buffers."
+ (save-excursion
+ (goto-char beg)
+ (let ((string (if delete (delete-and-extract-region beg end)
+ (buffer-substring beg end))))
+ (dolist (filter buffer-substring-filters string)
+ (setq string (funcall filter string))))))
+
;;;; Window system cut and paste hooks.
(defvar interprogram-cut-function nil
***************
*** 2391,2397 ****
text. See `insert-for-yank'."
(interactive "r")
(condition-case nil
! (let ((string (delete-and-extract-region beg end)))
(when string ;STRING is nil if BEG = END
;; Add that string to the kill ring, one way or another.
(if (eq last-command 'kill-region)
--- 2427,2433 ----
text. See `insert-for-yank'."
(interactive "r")
(condition-case nil
! (let ((string (filter-buffer-substring beg end t)))
(when string ;STRING is nil if BEG = END
;; Add that string to the kill ring, one way or another.
(if (eq last-command 'kill-region)
***************
*** 2427,2434 ****
system cut and paste."
(interactive "r")
(if (eq last-command 'kill-region)
! (kill-append (buffer-substring beg end) (< end beg))
! (kill-new (buffer-substring beg end)))
(if transient-mark-mode
(setq deactivate-mark t))
nil)
--- 2463,2470 ----
system cut and paste."
(interactive "r")
(if (eq last-command 'kill-region)
! (kill-append (filter-buffer-substring beg end) (< end beg))
! (kill-new (filter-buffer-substring beg end)))
(if transient-mark-mode
(setq deactivate-mark t))
nil)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-16 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-14 12:55 buffer-substring-filter Chong Yidong
2005-03-14 23:44 ` buffer-substring-filter Richard Stallman
2005-03-15 0:29 ` buffer-substring-filter Chong Yidong
2005-03-16 16:22 ` buffer-substring-filter Richard Stallman
2005-03-16 22:49 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
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